Political science

Do archivists ‘curate’ history? And to what extent are our librarians the gatekeepers of knowledge?

Libraries and archives have a long and rich history of compiling ‘radical collections’- from Klanwatch Project in the States to the R. D. Laing Archive in Glasgow- but a re-examination of the information professions and all aspects of managing those collections is long overdue.

This book is the result of a critical conference held at Senate House Library in 2017. The conference provided a space to debate the issues and ethics of collection development, management and promotion.

This book brings together some key papers from those proceedings. It shines a light on pressing topical issues within library...

Leslie
Bethell is the most respected scholar of Brazil of his generation. This has
been recognized in Brazil by being made a corresponding fellow of both the
Brazilian Academy of Letters and of Sciences. Perhaps best known for his book The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave
Trade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), Leslie Bethell’s
scholarship has ranged widely not least in his editorship of the 12-volume Cambridge History of Latin America
(1984-2008). In recent years he has continued to research the modern history of
Brazil, much of which he has presented in invited lectures and Brazilian
journals and remained unpublished in English until now. In 2010 he presented a provocative paper in
the...

This book examines the social, cultural, economic, and political effects
of modern demographic change in the United States. The contributors
from the U.S. and the U.K. draw on new research to analyze a wide range
of issues pertaining to the diversity of American society.

Topics include:Latino immigrant incorporation

racial and ethnic integration in metropolitan contexts

population self-determination, and Native Americans

public policy issues relating to immigration

growth of the U.S. prison population

changing nature of poverty in the United States

politics of demographic and social change at national and local levels